On November 16, leaders of the G20 Group of Nations — the 20 largest economies — made an important decision. The world’s megabanks now have official permission to pledge depositor accounts as collateral to make leveraged derivative bets….

The intrepid bureaucrats at the Internal Revenue Service have done a superb job of making us fear them. We dutifully file our 1040s, FBARs, and all manner of other forms, consent to having our wages withheld from our paychecks, and suffer indignities on a daily basis at which our forefathers would have blanched.

Quite often on my seminars, I employ myself really hard to make people understand, or better said, believe that in Costa Rica every single property has a different deadline when it comes to the Property Tax Return (Declaracion de Bienes Inmuebles), and that is the actual case.

Max came to retire in Costa Rica some 15 years ago. He and his wife chose a property right in front of the ocean, where they built a house, and have followed all the paperwork applying for the “concession”…

Indulge yourself for a moment and imagine you’re back in 1986. You’re listening to “Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer on the radio and on your way to the movie theater to watch Aliens, starring Sigourney Weaver.

FATCA and similar laws have eviscerated financial privacy in the US. And last year, thanks to whistleblower Edward Snowden, the world learned the extent of the surveillance conducted by America’s largest spy agency, the NSA.

I didn’t discover what I really needed until I wrote a book about a subject every American (and citizen of the planet) needs to learn. The book, Who Really Owns Your Gold, is considered blasphemous by some, but the details are 100% accurate: they demonstrate who runs America and our world and how they do it.

The criminals in federal and local government will steal your money, even if you’re a law-abiding citizen. Don’t believe it? Just ask Carole Hinders (and 62,000 others), who has run a “modest” cash-only Mexican restaurant for many years.